If drinking don’t kill me, her memory will.
GEORGE JONESI lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I’m home drunk again.
More George Jones Quotes
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You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.
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If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.
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There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.
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If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.
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Don’t let the ‘business’ change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.
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I love what I’ve done and I just can’t stand to see what they’re doing to it. But I’ve learned to live with it because that’s what they’ve done. They’ve come in with the modern sounds. I call it modern pop. It’s not country anymore.
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You can’t put this possum in a cage
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I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.
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Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.
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Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.
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Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.
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I would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.
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I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.
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I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.
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I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,
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